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MEANRANK
49/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5321
- IMDb #5090
- Google retired #1721
- Rotten Tomatoes #4667
- Metacritic #4931
- Letterboxd #5287
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #5167
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4233
- Metacritic Critics #4853
- Metacritic Audience #4656
- Criticker #4058
- Douban #2194
- Kinopoisk #5057
- AlloCiné #4000
- Trakt #4480
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 18, highest is Google on 86. Critics average 22, everyone else 55.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Aliens misinterpret video feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war and attack Earth using pixelated versions of the games as models. A former arcade champion is recruited by the military to lead a team of old-school gamers. They must use their knowledge of Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, and others to save the planet.
Details
- Director
- Chris Columbus
- Writers
- Patrick Jean, Tim Herlihy, Timothy Dowling
- Based on
- Pixels
- Released
- 16 July 2015
- Country
- China, France, India, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $88.0M
- Box office
- $244.9M
- Awards
- 2 wins, 8 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 10 →2 wins from 10 nominations across 5 ceremonies
| Golden Raspberry Awards 2016 | Worst Screenplay | Tim Herlihy and Timothy Dowling (based on a work by Patrick Jean) | Nominee |
| Golden Raspberry Awards 2016 | Worst Picture | Pixels | Nominee |
| Golden Raspberry Awards 2016 | Worst Actor | Adam Sandler | Nominee |
| Golden Raspberry Awards 2016 | Worst Supporting Actor | Josh Gad | Nominee |
| Golden Raspberry Awards 2016 | Worst Supporting Actor | Kevin James | Nominee |
| Golden Raspberry Awards 2016 | Worst Supporting Actress | Michelle Monaghan | Nominee |
| Golden Trailer Awards 2016 | Golden Fleece | Pixels | Winner |
| Houston Film Critics Society Awards 2016 | Worst Film | Pixels | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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10 awards — Pixels
×| Golden Fleece | Pixels | Winner |
| Worst Film | Pixels | Winner |
| Worst Actor | Adam Sandler | Nominee |
| Worst Picture | Pixels | Nominee |
| Worst Screenplay | Tim Herlihy and Timothy Dowling (based on a work by Patrick Jean) | Nominee |
| Worst Supporting Actor | Josh Gad | Nominee |
| Worst Supporting Actor | Kevin James | Nominee |
| Worst Supporting Actress | Michelle Monaghan | Nominee |
| Outstanding Achievement in Casting – Animation Feature | Brad Gilmore | Nominee |
| Choice Summer Movie Star: Male | Adam Sandler | Nominee |